The Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-6) is a model text agreement proposed by the United States to India for exchange of terrorist screening information between Terrorist Screening Centre (TSC) of the US and an Indian agency.

There have been several rounds of discussions between the interlocutors of the US and India in the past one year and both sides have narrowed down their differences on several key issues with the aim of signing the pact in the next Homeland Security Dialogue to be attended by Home Minister Rajnath Singh and his US counterpart Jeh Johnson and likely to be held in June.

However, the proposed agreement has been dropped from the agenda apparently due to the objections from Indian intelligence agencies.

"It is taken off from the agenda," said a senior officer privy to the development. The issue of setting up of TSC was not discussed at all during Tuesday's preparatory meeting attended by Assistant Secretary in the US Department of Homeland Security Alan Bersin and Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs M Gopal Reddy.

The US has already finalised such agreements with 30 countries. TSC is a multi agency organisation administered by FBI which consolidates several terrorist watch list maintained by different US government agencies into single terrorist data base on terror suspects.